In recent years, collaborative knowledge production has become a central concern, not only for the scientific community but also for policy makers. In particular, there is a lively debate on the role of geographical space for research collaborations. Up to now, nearly no systematic empirical...

This paper concentrates on the central link between productivity and knowledge capital, and shifts attention from firms and industries to regions. The objective is to measure knowledge elasticity effects within a regional Cobb-Douglas production function framework, with an emphasis on knowledge...

The objective of this study is to identify knowledge spillovers that spread across regions in Europe and vary in magnitude for different industries. The study uses a panel of 203 NUTS-2 regions covering the 15 pre-2004 EU-member-states to estimate the impact over the period 1998-2003, and...

Education-based travel constitutes a substantial portion of the total volume of passenger traffic. Nonetheless, so far neither transport nor education policy has recognised it as a matter of interest. A study on the commuting behaviour of secondary-level students in Austria provides detailed...

The transformation of China into a knowledge based economy is currently one of the most intensively debated research issues in Economic Geography and Regional Science. The focus of this study is on the effects of knowledge production and knowledge spillovers on manufacturing total factor...

In the recent past, interest of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policies to influence the innovation behaviour of firms has been increased considerably. This gives rise to the notion of behavioural additionality, broadening traditional evaluation concepts of input and output...